and he is hospitalized in texas. chris? >> nbc's kelly o'donnell, thank you for that update. >>> a big fight brewing over upcoming miniseries and docuseries on hillary clinton. reince priebus calls the program thinly veiled attempt at putting a thumb on the scales of the 2016 presidential election. >> they are promoting hillary clinton and they are going to spend millions of dollars doing it. i think we have responsibility as a party to make the choices as to who our debate partners are. >> in a statement, nbc news says it's completely independent of nbc entertainment and has no involvement in this project. and cnn says instead of making premature decisions, the rn shrks shournc should limit judgment. let's bring in ed rendell and former rnc chairman, michael steele. good morning, gentlemen. >> good morning. >> gooim good morning. >> michael, if you you were chair now would you do the same thing? >> i probably would raise the red flag. i see the rnc's position here as this thing gets set up to have these two very high profi